If you clone your present Windows 7/8/10 hard drive to an SanDisk SSD with the SanDisk clone software, then the SSD could be bootable and the old hard drive could be replaced.
By AOMEI / Last Updated May 15, 2020
Firstly, we should understand that Hard Disk Drives and Solid State Drives are of different mechanical structures, for example, an HDD reads and writes data on its rotating platter with a mechanical arm moving around, while an SSD works with a chip.
Secondly, from the different mechanical structures between HDDs and SSDs, we know that SSDs can read and write faster than HDDs due to its non-mechanical design, in addition SSDs may make no noise while working since it’s without spinning like HDDs. Still, SSDs are more durable, more reliable and lighter, etc.
Here, SanDisk SSD is well-known and popular among customers, and upgrading your old hard drive to a SanDisk SSD is a good idea. To do so, you need a SanDisk SSD clone software to clone all contents of your HDD to the SanDisk SSD in order to avoid the annoyance of re-installing operating system and applications, even the pain of losing any data.
To clone HDD to SanDisk SSD, we’d like to recommend you AOMEI Partition Assistant for achieving the job. Here, before starting doing so, please make sure your SanDisk SSD is connected.
Step1: Download, install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. Right Click the HDD you’re going to clone, or you can choose “Disk Copy Wizard” at the left pane.
Step2. In the pop-up window, “Copy Disk Quickly” will copy only used space so as to save time and storage space, while “Sector-by-Sector Copy” wizard will copy all sectors no matter it is used or not and will take more time and occupy more space on the target disk accordingly. Then, click “Next” to continue.
Step3. Select the SanDisk SSD as destination disk, and tick the box before “Optimize the performance of SSD” which will improve the performance of your SanDisk SSD. Click Next.
Step4. You can edit your SanDisk SSD here. Resizing the partition as you want by click the options.
Tip: The SanDisk SSD can be larger or smaller than your old drive as long as it is equal or larger than the data size of your old drive.
Step5. There is a note for how to boot your computer from the destination disk. After reading, click “Finish” to back to the main interface of AOMEI Partition Assistant, and don’t forget to click “Apply” so as to implement the operation.
AOMEI Partition Assistant is a powerful cloning software for SanDisk SSD, which supports all Windows editions including Windows 7/8/8.1/10 of both 32bit and 64bit. Also, you can use it to migrate OS to SSD, make bootable media, convert between NTFS and FAT32 and so on.
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